nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 13 hours ago'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers'www.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up1115arrow-down11
arrow-up1114arrow-down1external-link'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers'www.pcgamer.comnanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 13 hours agomessage-square18fedilink
minus-squaremagic_lobster_party@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up27·10 hours agoThey hoped the episodic delivery of games would be the future. Especially alongside a digital distribution platform like Steam. I suspect they realized episodes wasn’t the way after the release of Orange Box, so they moved on from that.
minus-squareBlue_Morpho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoThey didn’t try. They did one then it was years before episode 2. You have to actually make episodes before declaring it a failure.
They hoped the episodic delivery of games would be the future. Especially alongside a digital distribution platform like Steam. I suspect they realized episodes wasn’t the way after the release of Orange Box, so they moved on from that.
They didn’t try. They did one then it was years before episode 2.
You have to actually make episodes before declaring it a failure.